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Blood and the respiratory system
Blood and the respiratory system

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Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Cheryl Hawkes.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources:

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Figure 4b Adapted from BC Open Textbooks. Anatomy and Physiology

Figure 5 From Gray's Anatomy 1918 (public domain)

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